Fedora 38 : wabt (2023-ab291ca614)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 177620

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-ab291ca614 advisory.

- WebAssembly v1.0.29 discovered to contain an abort in CWriter::MangleType. (CVE-2023-27116)

- An issue in the component hang.wasm of WebAssembly 1.0 causes an infinite loop. (CVE-2023-30300)

- WebAssembly wat2wasm v1.0.32 allows attackers to cause a libc++abi.dylib crash by putting '@' before a quote (). (CVE-2023-31669)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected wabt package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-ab291ca614

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 177620

File Name: fedora_2023-ab291ca614.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2023

Updated: 6/26/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-31669

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wabt

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-27116, CVE-2023-30300, CVE-2023-31669